….And here's my first attempt at the july landscape challenge. It was a design I've been wanting to do for quite a while and I coincidentally had some annatto infused oil that had been sitting in my pantry for a year and needed to be used. I was already planning on doing a color experiment with the annatto oil and this seemed like the perfect combination!
I made 2 batches of soap at the same time (same recipe) one with 75% annatto infused oil and one with regular plain olive oil. I then poured out 1/3 of the colored batter into the mold, topped up the mixing container with white batter, mixed it in and poured out 1/3 again. Repeated that to make 6 layers of decending amounts of annatto oil (approximately 75%, 50%, 33%, 22%, 15%, 10%) Since the annatto oil had been sitting practically untouched for a year, the infusion was quite strong.
After gelling the soap, I cut and carved out the designs to fill them up with cp soap colored with activated charcoal. The designs were copied from images I found on google, I wanted to link them here but can't find them anymore, just know I didn't come up with them myself
Scented with an EO blend called 'Orchard Plow' contributed to EOcalc by Kenna, a fruity/floral/fresh/sweet blend of Lemongrass, Patchouli and Ylang Ylang.
I made 2 batches of soap at the same time (same recipe) one with 75% annatto infused oil and one with regular plain olive oil. I then poured out 1/3 of the colored batter into the mold, topped up the mixing container with white batter, mixed it in and poured out 1/3 again. Repeated that to make 6 layers of decending amounts of annatto oil (approximately 75%, 50%, 33%, 22%, 15%, 10%) Since the annatto oil had been sitting practically untouched for a year, the infusion was quite strong.
After gelling the soap, I cut and carved out the designs to fill them up with cp soap colored with activated charcoal. The designs were copied from images I found on google, I wanted to link them here but can't find them anymore, just know I didn't come up with them myself
Scented with an EO blend called 'Orchard Plow' contributed to EOcalc by Kenna, a fruity/floral/fresh/sweet blend of Lemongrass, Patchouli and Ylang Ylang.
